Patna, May 30 (IANS) Twenty-eight of the 30 students
of Super 30, an innovative coaching institute in
Bihar have passed the highly competitive Indian
Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination
(IIT-JEE) this year. The results were declared Wednesday.
Last
year also 28 students of Super 30 had made it
to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) colleges. Every year, Super 30 selects a
group of 30 IIT aspirants from poor families and
provides them with free coaching, food and accommodation.
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"It
is a big day for us, our students made it. This year
28 cracked ITT and two other were selected for preparatory,
it is like hundred percent result," Anand Kumar,
director of Super 30, told IANS.
"We
were sure of positive results as we teach them to eat,
sleep, walk and talk only IIT," added Anand.
Bihar's
Additional Director-General of Police Abhyanand, who
teaches physics at the institute said, "The success
of Super 30 lies in hard labour and proper guidance
for excellent result."
Anand,
who also runs the Ramanujan School of Mathematics, said
Super 30 is supported by the income generated from the
mathematics school, which has students from affluent
families who can afford to pay to fulfil their dreams.
Super
30 took shape five years ago and its success can serve
as a model for other such institutes across India. 18
of its students cracked the IIT-JEE in 2003 the year
Super 30 was set up. The number rose to 22 in 2004 and
26 in 2005 and has been steadily increasing over the
years.
Early
this year, Norika Fujiwara, a former Japanese beauty
queen and actress, made a documentary film on Super
30 for its innovative and successful attempt to send
poor children to India's top engineering colleges.
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